Pivot, VISION Series & Rebirth
2023
Lizard Boy
June 1-July 1, 2023
Theatre Row, Theatre Three
Following a successful run at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Prospect’s NYC Premiere of Lizard Boy: A New Indie-Rock Musical follows Trevor, a lonesome outsider dubbed the “Lizard Boy of Point Defiance” after a strange encounter with a dragon turned his skin green and scaly. Ashamed of his appearance, he rarely leaves his home. However, when a powerful voice calls to him in a dream, he impulsively finds a date (on Grindr), launching an adventure with his new date, Cary, and Siren, another survivor of the dragon encounter, who insists the dragons will return. Sparks fly in this queer-indie-rock-action-romance that pulses with fierce conflict—and fiercer harmonies—on its heart-pounding journey of self-discovery.
“Fantastical”, “Mysterious”, and “Lovely” - The New York Times
“Iconic, “Sumptuous” “Potent and Playful” - New York Sun
“Funny”, “Catchy”, and “One of a Kind”, with “Heartfelt, Comic Gold and a Terrific Score” - Queerty
“Excellent’ and “Audience Acclaimed” with 91% Positive Reviews - ShowScore
CAST & CREATIVE
Book, Music, & Lyrics: Justin Huertas
Director: Brandon Ivie
Music Director: Steven Tran
Artistic Director: Cara Reichel
Scenic Adaptor/Environmental Designer: Suzu Sakai
Costume Designer: Erik Andor
Lighting Designer: Brian Tovar
Sound Designer: Kevin Heard
Projection Designer: Katherine Freer
Original Production Designer: L.B. Morse
Associate Director: Cara Hinh
Assistant Music Director: Keiji Ishiguri
Production Stage Manager: Victoria Whooper
Assistant Stage Manager: Josh-Andrew Wisdom
Production Manager: Savanah Sanchez
featuring
Kiki deLohr, Justin Huertas, & William A. Williams
with understudies
Kai An Chee, Milo J. Marami, & Jacob Ryan Smith
Out of Myself - Songs of Peter Foley
June 5, 2023
Peter Norton Symphony Space
Out of Myself - Songs of Peter Foley was presented by Prospect’s IGNITE Series, a concert initiative featuring new voices shaping tomorrow’s musical theater, in partnership with The Peter Foley Music Project. The concert featured Broadway’s finest performing a range of songs from The Hidden Sky, The Names We Gave Him, Bloom, and more. All songs were by Peter Foley, a composer and lyricist described by Stephen Sondheim as “among the best of his generation at setting lyrics and writing music that evokes character and mood.”
CAST & CREATIVE
Director: Leah Hofmann
Music Supervisor: Rob Berman
Curated by: Kate Chisholm
Associate Music Directors: Griffin Strout & Alexander Tom
featuring
Shereen Ahmed, Kate Baldwin, Mikaela Bennett, Max Chernin, Eisa Davis, Melissa Errico, Manoel Felciano, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Marya Grandy, Jason Gotay, Darron Hayes, Christian Probst, Michael Protacio, David Rowen, Sam Simahk, Graham Stevens, Michael Winther, & Collegiate Choral Singers
Baked! The Musical
An incrEDIBLE New Musical
October 2, 2023
Loreto Theater at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture
A return partnership between Prospect’s “IGNITE” Series (a concert initiative featuring new voices shaping tomorrow’s musical theater) and the National Asian Artist Project’s “Discover: New Musicals”, Baked! The Musical follows overachiever Jane Huang. After failing to get the scholarship at her dream college, she joins forces with the class degenerate to build the greatest cannabis edible empire ever run by high schoolers. However, Jane’s parents are kept in the dark, struggling to maintain a profit at their Chinese bakery while coping with their only daughter leaving home. Featuring an all Asian-American cast and a contemporary pop-rock score, Baked! reflects on self-worth and the question of what we owe the people we love, born out of the writers’ experiences growing up as the children of immigrants in the US.
CAST & CREATIVE
Book, Music, and Lyrics: Jord Liu & Deepak Kumar
Director: Miranda Cornell
Music Director: Alexander Tom
Production Stage Manager: Mengyuan "Mia" Qin
Deck Stage Manager: Christina Russo
Music Assistant: Alex Ngo
Sound Engineer: Rachel Kolb
Lighting Designer: Kat Zhou
Line Producer: Julie Miller
Producing Artistic Assistant: Kate Semmens
featuring
Savidu Geevaratne, Timothy Huang, Minji Kim, Claire Kwon, Jason Ma, Hazel Anne Raymundo, Sushma Saha, Lianah Sta. Ana & Drew Tanabe
Band: Anastasiya Kostromina, Magda Kress, Matt Wong
Potluck: A Musical Feast
November 16, 2023
Peter Norton Symphony Space
Prospect's annual Musical Theater Lab features a lineup of original short musicals created by a cadre of up-and-coming artists. 2023’s Potluck: A Musical Feast lab centers around the theme of food, with each of the writing teams bringing one course of a meal to the collective table. In a series of playful and profound new works, writers explore how we are what we eat, with food impacting every aspect of our daily lives, from first dates to family history.
CAST & CREATIVE
Written by: Thani Brant, Rae Covey, Troy Defour & Sean Havrilla, Lorrie Doriza & Allison Light, Dylan Glatthorn & Will Lacker, Divya Mangwani & Tidtaya Sinutoke, Krystal Ortiz & Nygel D. Robinson, Dylan Schifrin, Will Shishmanian & Brooke Trumm
Director: Dev Bondarin
Music Directors: Simone Allen & PJ Ju
Stage Managers: Sydnee Davis & Christina Russo
Associate Producer: Kate Semmens
Lighting Designer: Shelby Loera
Curated by: Dev Bondarin & Cara Reichel
featuring
Syd Bakal, Luz Ballestér, Marilyn Caserta, Juan Castro, Meetu Chilana, Zina Ellis, Christian Mark Gibbs, Erica Ito, Zachary A. Myers, Jodie Evans, Claire Kwon, Gaea Lawton, Vaibu Mohan, Michael Padgett, McLean Peterson, Lyn Philistine, Andrea Prestinario, Sheilah Rae, Chino Ramos, Nigel O. Richards, James Rose, Troy Valjean Rucker, Sushma Saha, Samantha Sayah, Sam Simahk, Ariana Valdes & Luka Zylik
with additional music performances from
Alex Petti, Stefan Schallak